Massachusetts
It’s time to corral the cranberries
The colorful tradition is part of the fabric of autumn life in rural Southeastern Massachusetts. Many of those berries will end up on someone’s Thanksgiving dinner.
A boom encircled a section of the bog where workers raked the cranberries into a siphon which shoots them into wash truck and then a waiting tractor trailer.
The A.D. Makepeace Company, North America’s largest cranberry grower, owns this large bog, o... [3388 chars]